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as may be necessary before the amount of the legacies is paid over to them from my estate. My sons Richard and Willis to be trustees for my grandchildren William Tatum and Rebecca Ann Kirk until they rearch 21. Executor: son Willis P. /s/ George Manyfee.296
    Nancy Ann Collier Hardeman Menefee, aged 79, lived with her son, Richard Menefee, in 1850, in Talbot County, Georgia.297
    Children of John Hardeman and Nancy “Anne” Collier:
+58. i. Elizabeth “Betsy” Hardeman, born 25 December 1794, Oglethorpe County, Georgia, died 23 October 1870, Bibb County, Georgia, married first, 30 January 1810, Jackson County, Georgia, to Charles Smith,298 married second, as his second wife, 18 July 1835, Coweta County, Georgia, to Welcome Parks.299
+59. ii. Thomas Hardeman, born 15 April 1797, Oglethorpe County, Georgia, died 11 August 1861, Bibb County, Georgia, buried Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia,300 married 17 October 1821, Eatonton, Putnam County, Georgia, to Sarah B. Sparks.301
+60. iii. John Hardeman, born circa 1798, Oglethorpe County, Georgia, died after 1860, Tunica County, Mississippi,302 married first 19 December 1822, Oglethorpe County, to Paulina Hill,303 married

    296 Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., Some Georgia County Records, Volume 5 (Greenville, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1990), p. 281. Talbot County, Georgia, Will Book A, p. 86-90. Will of George Manyfee. Witnesses: William R. Parker, R. M. Smith, A. K. Leonard. Proved in open court 6 January 1841 and the executor qualified.
    297 1850 U.S. Census, Talbot County, Georgia, #1143. Menifee, Richard, age 40; Mary, age 35; Frances, age 16, female; Willis, age 12; George, age 6; Richard, age 5; Robert, age 10; Elizabeth, age 1; and Ann, age 79, born Virginia.
    298 Warren, Georgia Genealogist, Georgia Marriages 1800-1810, p. 151. Charles Smith to Elizabeth Hardeman, 30 January 1810, Jackson County, marriage performed by B. Walls.
    299 Coweta County, Georgia, Marriage Record. Welcome Parks to Elizabeth Smith, 18 July 1835.
    300 Tombstone in Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia.
    301 Putnam County, Georgia, Marriages. Thomas Hardeman to Sarah Sparks, 16 October 1821.
    302 1860 U.S. Census, Tunica County, Mississippi, p. 886, #186/187, P.O. Austin. John Hardeman, age 61, male, farmer, born Ga., head of family.
    303 Warren and White, Marriages and Deaths 1820-1830, p. 55. John Hardeman, Esq. of Oglethorpe County, married Miss Paulina Hill, 19 December 1822, by Rev. Whitman C. Hill in Oglethorpe County. Georgia Journal, 31 December 1822 issue.Smith, Oglethorpe County, Georgia, Marriages, p. 173. John Hardman to Paulina Hill, 19 December 1822.